Chris Hays, id Software’s lead services programmer, has been at the company for over 15 years. While Xbox and studio leadership claim that id can ship a game like Doom (2016) again with fewer people, Hays disagrees, and claims Microsoft doesn’t “understand art” or video games. According to Hays, id management has been given “talking points” and has been told by Xbox what they can and can’t say. Because id Software is owned by Bethesda, which is owned by Xbox, all of the studio’s games are available day one on Game Pass. If you have Game Pass, are you saying poor sales means a poor number of games sold?